It’s so great to join together, on this last day of April, to advocate for Neurodiversity, to celebrate the many beautiful things that only autism can bring to society. Like Absolute Pitch! Synesthesia! Need we say more? People that know autism already get our point. But we’ll take this opportunity for some brief explanation, or at least point you in some directions you’ll enjoy going.

First we’d like to say, The Musical Autist organization feels entitled and compelled to promote these two phenomenons as autistic traits for two reasons.

2. The other reason we feel entitled and compelled to promote Absolute Pitch and Synesthesia as traits of autism is because of our connections with the field of music therapy. This is the kind of stuff Music Therapists love to study! Check out our Community Music Therapy Team. There you will find some wonderful, competence-presuming, evidence-based-practice-minded Board Certified Music Therapists who interact regularly with people on the spectrum that have Absolute Pitch or Synesthesia. We’ve studied some of the neurological underpinnings of autism, and we also realize the efficacy of highlighting the positive traits of people on the spectrum in order to cultivate self-empowerment and self-advocacy.

I mean really, wouldn’t YOU want to know what note or chord was being played just by hearing it? Wouldn’t you enjoy seeing specific colors when you heard certain tones?

Are you someone who has been paying attention to all the autism “awareness” this month? Have you heard the latest autism prevalence rate projections which are utilized for the fundraising pleas of organizations that paint autism to be a disease or something that families need to mourn, in order to raise funds for research intended to “extinguish” autism? Are you exhausted by it all like we are? Then you’ve come to the right place! Now go to Autism Acceptance Month (you’ll see that our Sensory Friendly Concert was on their list of events), then spend some time reading the many amazing bloggers linked to Autism Positivity Flashblog.